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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Just Carl, post: 574014, member: 4552&quot;]Here is some interesting information on the latest version of the Red Book.</p><p>I normally attempt to find time every few years to evaluate my entire collection. I use the Red Book as a guide for just approximate values although I know they are high, I always figure if I use them now, in several years those statistics will be close to real life. </p><p>The last time I did this was in 2008 so I figured might want to see how things are going. This is usually a fairly extensive project with well over 100 Whitman Albums alone and many, many other items. </p><p>So I sat down, opened the 2010 edition and opened my book of Excel spread sheets of all coins. I started with Proof sets for comparisons and figured if not much changed from 2008, I would abandon doing this for few more years. </p><p>I also normally tell people that coin prices never go down.</p><p>On the pages for proof sets I compared my proof sets with the prices now and came up with this: Out of 49 different dates of proof sets, 26 had prices down, 7 had prices up, 16 had no changes since 2008. </p><p>I was a little in shock so moved to Walking Half Dollars. I used one of my Albums as an example and the grades are various. But again I was amazed that only 20 had price changes at all in the entire series from 2008 and only minor increases at that. </p><p>Moved to Standing Liberty Quarters. I checked 28 of the series in one of my albums and 15 had changed from 2008. 4 were down in price, 11 were up slightly and all the rest were the same.</p><p>One more place to see how things are changing in the Red Book. I moved to Flying Eagle/Indian Head Cents. Used one of my albums and checked 58 coin prices from 2008. 22 had no changes at all. 36 had gone up but only slightly and none down in price. </p><p>I will continue to do this with the entire collection now over a few weeks time due to the amount to be checked. </p><p>Although from what I am seeing it appears that Whitman is now going to attempt to make their prices a little more realistic so people would stop saying the book is great for information but completely ignor the prices. </p><p>If you have the 2010 version you may be amazed at the prices on coins. I&#039;ve a lot more to check so not sure if my limited checking is of any real information statistically.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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